Cheap photo pressies - photo your photo

lovemystudentloan

We recently got bubbas photos done with a nationwide chain, who are extortionate (£50 for two 10 X 8s, ouch), so instead of forking out loads for copies I've photographed the 2 photos, loaded them up to Truprint and bought four 10 X 12s for £1.99 each. I hung over the bed with my digital camera and the photos on the floor and took loads of each to get 2 really good copies, there's probably a better way of doing it, but they look amazing, same as the real thing. I've stuck them in £3.99 mounted frames from The Range and voila - Grandparents pressies sorted.

Done a quick search under cheap photos (and it just came up with loads of Tesco stuff) so sorry if everybody knows this already.

Anyway, hope this helps folks. Have a brilliant Christmas moneysavers :beer:

Kayteehee

You do know this is illegal right? Unfortunately It's breaking the copyright on the photo, as you haven't paid for the right to copy them from the photographer.

A lot of places also wouldn't allow you to do this without them seeing permission from your photographer, eg. boots etc.

Sorry to put a downer on things.

M_A_R_I_E

Agree with above - this is illegal. You do not own the right to that photo unless you bought it (which you wouldn't have done for £50).

lovemystudentloan

Seriously??? Photographs of my child are copy written? By a photographer? Who's already been paid £50? So all the beautiful photos friends and family have of weddings put on the internet - for the entire world to see - are too? And we live in a country that thinks this isn't completely barking? Well, there's only one solution for that then. Plenty of nice coloured plain walls in my house to use as a background, I'll have to cut out the middleman and take my own pictures. Talk about cutting your nose off to spite the face. Thanks for the info though, you've just save me a fortune in years to come :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

lovemystudentloan

I can't believe you can copyright my child's image for 5 minutes work

snappybadger

lovemystudentloan wrote: »

I can't believe you can copyright my child's image for 5 minutes work

A photograph is a piece of artistic work and as such is covered by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 which assigns copyright to the person producing the work, i.e. the photographer.

As a photographer myself (who's sole income comes from photography) it is very important that people do not steal our work and copy it illegally. It is no different than pirate DVDS, illegal downloads or copying music - except that usually we are small businesses and not multi-billion pound corporations. It doesn't matter that the subject of the photograph is your child/yourself...the person who takes the picture owns the copyright and if you photograph it/copy it you are basically stealing - just as if you stole from a shop.

lovemystudentloan

Of course snappybadger, because shoplifters always pay £50 to unwittingly shoplift. Like I said I'll be sure to NEVER use a photographer EVER again

msfoxymax

snappybadger wrote: »

A photograph is a piece of artistic work and as such is covered by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 which assigns copyright to the person producing the work, i.e. the photographer.

As a photographer myself (who's sole income comes from photography) it is very important that people do not steal our work and copy it illegally. It is no different than pirate DVDS, illegal downloads or copying music - except that usually we are small businesses and not multi-billion pound corporations. It doesn't matter that the subject of the photograph is your child/yourself...the person who takes the picture owns the copyright and if you photograph it/copy it you are basically stealing - just as if you stole from a shop.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: mental note to myself don't ever let a photographer take any pics of my family incase i get jailed for copying it. If paying someone £50 to take a few pics doesn't allow me to copy them then i'll save the £50 and take then myself.

7roland8

I can see that legally this is correct but most people these days either scan and copy or put up on net and other people do it.

If I use a pic from the web I always make sure it is Creative Copyright - meaning I can use it if I assign credit - but I know if I have any personal pictures I would always think of them as mine. How many people bother to try and find the photographer if they need anohter copy of a wedding pic after many years?

They whole copyright issue is a minefield these days.

ikati5

We always scan onto the pc and distribute or have photographs copied by our local photo shop, they recently made some fantastic posters for £10 each buy one get one half price, I wouldn't dream of going back to the photographer for extortionate copies.

snappybadger

lovemystudentloan wrote: »

Of course snappybadger, because shoplifters always pay £50 to unwittingly shoplift. Like I said I'll be sure to NEVER use a photographer EVER again

As with any crime ignorance of the law is no excuse!

As I said before most photography businesses are run by sole traders trying to make a living for themselves and their family. £50 for a couple of prints might sound a lot but the work involved is more than "just 5 minutes" as you said above. Not to mention all the overheads associated with running a high street studio.

I'm sure you knew the prices before you bought the prints and no-one forced you to buy them anyway. By all means don't use a professional in the future...good luck with that...mind you if you don't notice the difference between a photo of a photo and the real thing I'm sure you'll be happy with your own results! :rotfl: